Agrival - Nutrivigène
Introducing Agrival - Nutrivigène
The Fabelor Competence Cluster [1]
Fabelor pole history
The Fabelor competence cluster, « Forêt-Agroalimentaire-Biotechnologie-Environnement Lorraine », created in 2007, is the most recent cluster. Its overall objective is to coordinate research, universities and industry. The cluster is divided into 3 Strategic Business Units (SBU); the analysis focus on the second SBU entitled “food safety and expertise”. This second SBU has the main objective to evaluate the effects of a diet on health, notably through the analysis of antioxidant biomolecules. Two main projects form the SBU. The first theme, “Agrival”, aims at evaluating the effects of chemical or biological field contamination on the end consumer. The second project « Nutrivigène », contributes to the understanding of links between food and diseases throughout the different stages of life.
The SBU is composed of 15 research teams from academia, mainly from 2 research institutions: - l’INPL
and the CHU – located on proximate geographical area. The 15 research teams are divided as follows
(according to Agrival or Nutrivigene projects):
- 6 teams in Biology and 1 in Physics from INPL, work on Agrival
- 7 Healthcare teams, from CHU, work on Nutrivigène
- 1 Computer Science team, with researchers from INPL and CHU, get involved from time to time in
Agrival or Nutrivigene project on specific points.
The teams working on each project have high cognitive proximities (biology for Agrival and Health for Nutrivigène) and high organisational proximity (INPL institute for Agrival and CHU Institute for Nutrivigène). It is possible to point out that from a project to another, the area of expertise is very different as well as the work cultures. Moreover, it should be underlined that besides the 15 research teams, 5 food industry companies (St Hubert, Milk cooperative, Euroserum, Nestlé Waters, Alliance Fromagères) are members of the project but will only actually take part to the project on the last stage of the programme.
References
- ↑ Author manuscript, published in "25th EGOS Colloquium, European Group for Organizational Studies, 2-4 July 2009, track 22
The strategic management of organizational knowledge: Creation versus control,ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain., Barcelone : Spain (2009)"
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/36/51/92/PDF/EGOS_2009_track22_KR_RD_CL_CT_DT_Territorial_Innovation_Dynamics_a_Knowledge_Perspective_.pdf
